A 37-year-old South African woman has given birth to ten (10) babies, seven (7) boys and three (3) girls.
Gosiame Thamara Sithole, has broken the Guinness World Record of most children delivered at a single birth which was previous held by Malian woman, Halima Cisse after giving birth to nine (9) children in Morocco in the month of May, 2021.
According to her husband, Sithole gave birth to two more babies than what the doctors had detected through the scan, 8.
He said, “I didn’t believe it. I doubted it. I was convinced that if it was more, it would be twins or triplets, not more than that. When the doctor told me, I took time to believe it. Even when I saw the scans I didn’t believe it. But, as time went by, I realised it was indeed true. I battled to sleep at night though.”
The woman who hails from Tembisa Township in Ekurhuleni, delivered the baby through Caesarean section and made it known her pregnancy was natural and was not on fertility treatment.
She said, “I could not believe it. I felt like one of God’s chosen children. I felt blessed to be given these kinds of blessings when many people out there need children. It’s a miracle which I appreciate. I had to go do my own research on whether a person could really conceive eight children. It was a new thing. I knew about twins, triplets and even quadruplets.”